What if darkness is your greatest enemy, the light your weapon and your prison? Can a prison save you?... The Shade is darkness incarnate, the apotheosis of all nightmares, and it imprisons the town of Fervence. Complacent in their protection from the dark realm by the repelling power of an orb of light as enigmatic as the The Shade itself, the townspeople have chosen to forget the evil that surrounds them and the light that is supposed to protect them. Enoch Clay, orphaned by an evil from that shaded realm--a thing that corrupted his father and killed his mother--has not forgotten. Now, over a decade after his parents' murder, The Shade invades again, taking from him the only love he has left and the only reason he has for remaining inside the light: his wife Esther. Convinced by a vision and a mysterious relic, Enoch believes Esther's murder may not be all that it seems and her killer the only key to saving her from death. But can it be trusted? To find out, Enoch must escape his town and its holy laws and flee into the forbidden darkness. But will he be able overcome the great evil that awaits him and threatens both worlds of light and dark? The Darkness claimed her, only The Darkness can release her... But at what cost?